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Books Available to review for H-Environment Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...

Now that we all left KC after a wonderful #ASEH #ASEH2026, continue the scholar conversation by reviewing a book for H-Environment! Check out my list of books below! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #energy #animalhist #sustainability #anthropocene #plantstudies
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The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities This handbook delves into the innovative intersection of health and environmental humanities, capturing its multidisciplinary creative spirit by showcasing key concepts and tools, on-the-ground applic...

🥳The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities is published today! Ed. by the fab Amber Abrams, @victoriabates.bsky.social & @rothiotome.bsky.social. It also includes a chapter 'Research on the Move' by @draflint.bsky.social and me. (Probably one to ask your library to order tho' £)

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Delta Dialogues logo and conference information: The Culture and Language of the Living Landscape in the Neerlandophone World. 
Association for Low Countries Studies, 16th Biennial Conference
22-24 June 2026
University of York, UK
Call for Papers

Delta Dialogues logo and conference information: The Culture and Language of the Living Landscape in the Neerlandophone World. Association for Low Countries Studies, 16th Biennial Conference 22-24 June 2026 University of York, UK Call for Papers

📢 Call for Papers: The Culture + Language of the Living Landscape in the Neerlandophone World.

The 16th Biennial ALCS Conference (22-24 June 2026) is @york.ac.uk . Exploring "Delta Dialogues"—from polders to mangroves. 🌾🌊

🔹 CfP deadline: 15 March 2026

More info: buff.ly/q5RdGcC

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Looking forward to sharing my research as the first talk in the Northern Environmental History Network's spring seminar series! I'll be looking closely at a handful of 17th-century maps of the Caribbean sugar colony of Suriname and their unusual depictions of nature

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Map showing areas of London, Essex and Thames Estuary predicted to be below the annual flood level by 2050, as climate change progresses.

Map showing areas of London, Essex and Thames Estuary predicted to be below the annual flood level by 2050, as climate change progresses.

Screenshot of map showing areas of London & home counties predicted to be below annual flood level by 2050. This is a screenshot from a global map. You can investigate how flood risk is predicted to rise where you live via link below:

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#maritimehistory

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Sadly can’t make it but absolutely thrilled this is happening! Excited to see what new information can be extracted from these maps

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This is a really good piece. What does walking do for our research?

"Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it? Sounds a bit like saying if you immerse yourself in historical documents, they ‘speak for themselves’."

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Books Available to review for H-Environment Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...

Reviewing a book is one of the best and most fun service opportunities available! Check out the awesome books available from H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #envtech #conservation #sustainability #envjustice #ecocrit #envphil #plantstudies #animalstudies #nature
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Checks all my boxes—concepts of nature, travel writing, early modern maps featuring goats—excellent new article from Liz and Natalia!

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Arctic Fever: new exhibit finds 19th-century parallels to Trump’s Greenland obsession As far back as 1867, White House officials have viewed Greenland, and Iceland, as having immense strategic value

Nice to see that the Arctic Fever exhibition at the U of Toronto Fisher Rare Books library that I’m here in Canada for (opening event tonight) got coverage in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
#envhum #envhist #books

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Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

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Poster showing the seminar schedule. The image is of Louis XVI giving instructions

Poster showing the seminar schedule. The image is of Louis XVI giving instructions

New seminars on Instructing Colonial Natural History 🌿 We can look forward to papers by Yunting Gu, Adriana Craciun and @nulybranch.bsky.social. For more info see instructingnaturalhistory.com (more info will be added). #skystorians #museums #collecting #histsci #envhist

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Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic* Abstract. Historical scholarship has long highlighted the extensive landscape interventions initiated by state agents, early capitalists and experts in the

From the current issue: “Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic”

by @annalunapost.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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Apply to this fantastic workshop by 31 January!

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Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian? — audio A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...

Can an archive make a monster of a historian? But of course! I wrote about this for @contingent-mag.bsky.social, and the essay is now both free to read online and available as an audio read by me!

The audio version:
💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #maps #cartography
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It could be you

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I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

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“Protecting Greenland's ice is the most important piece of national security and global security you can imagine. It's not critical minerals. It's not military strategy. It's keeping that ice frozen.” - Longtime climate researcher Paul Bierman.

Watch the rest: revkin.substack.com/p/tonight-me...

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Early modern women writing in books! An online resource.

#earlymodern #Renaissance 🗃

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Our first event in the new year will be a talk today by Stephan Pauleit (Strategic #Landscape Planning and Management, TUM) on “Transforming #Urban Landscapes: Why #GreenCities Are the Future.”

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Violent Waters Cambridge Core - Environmental History - Violent Waters

WHOA! Elly Robson Dezateux’s Violent Waters @universitypress.cambridge.org is every bit as genius as I had assumed/hoped/dreamed. 🤩

Get this on all your reading lists, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

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Books Available to review for H-Environment Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...

New semester, new books! Check out this wonderful, ever changing, list of books available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #aghist #energy #climate #animalstudies #ecocrit #plantstudies #waterhist #envphil #envtech #histsci #conservation #sustainability
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And the extension pack, get more #EarlyModern #Skystorians. Collect them all. go.bsky.app/K2gp9GK

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May I join the pack?

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Thank you Liesbeth, what an honour! Very excited to be joining the Dutch history community in London, for as long as you’ll have me!

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Was a pleasure to present my previous MA research into the physical and mapped waterways of Dutch colonial Cape Town as part of the Living with Water seminar series in May 2025. Big thank you to Sam, Giulia, Jack and Paola!

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Master thread of all our recordings. Please watch (well, listen, most of these would also work as podcasts) and share!

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Likewise Jack, so great to come back to all these thoughts now with some more perspective!

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Gister een draadje over Galileo, vandaag de polders.

Na mijn promotie in 2020 ben ik qua onderzoek best een andere weg ingeslagen. Met 2 beurzen kon ik 3 jaar naar het buitenland (Los Angeles en Cambridge) om daar nieuw onderzoek op te zetten, naar 17e eeuwse inpolderingsprojecten dus.

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